# Fuzzy query inside spans in elasticsearch 6.x

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-query-inside-spans-in-elasticsearch-6-x/69816>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 22, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-query-inside-spans-in-elasticsearch-6-x/69816 "2016-12-22T15:58:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@jhrave](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jhrave)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-query-inside-spans-in-elasticsearch-6-x/69816/1 "2016-12-22T15:58:04Z")

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Hi,

according to documentation match query should be used instead of fuzzy query and fuzzy will be removed in version 6.0. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-fuzzy-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-fuzzy-query.html)

Clearly, match query with fuzziness can serve same purpose as fuzzy query in most cases. However, match query is not allowed inside span\_multi. See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-span-multi-term-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-span-multi-term-query.html)

Is there going to be some other way how to define fuzzy match inside span in version 6.0 or is elasticsearch simply going to lose this functionality?

Cheers,  
Jan

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-query-inside-spans-in-elasticsearch-6-x/69816/2 "2017-01-19T15:58:14Z")

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